Best movies of Frank Beyer

Actors : Blanche Kommerell, Erwin Geschonneck, Vlastimil Brodský, Henry Hübchen,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ...

Actors : Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Fred Delmare, Krystyn Wójcik,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

As rumors reach them that the Allied armies are advancing on their concentration camp at Buchenwald, Polish prisoners renew their feeble hope for survival and freedom. When a group of ...

Actors : Jutta Hoffmann, Eberhard Esche, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Manfred Krug,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

A film about living and working conditions in the GDR of the 60's. Includes a little love story of course.

Actors : Erwin Geschonneck, Ernst Busch, Edwin Marian, Manfred Krug,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

The Spanish Civil War in the year 1936. Five brigadiers are singled out to stay behind in the Spanish Sierras and fend off the fascist enemy while the rest of the troops recede. They are ...

Actors : Manja Behrens, Margot Busse, Erwin Geschonneck, Marita Böhme,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory he once worked for running again, Kalle has to travel to Wittenberg - the only place ...

Actors : Fred Düren, Klaus Piontek, Sylvester Groth, Matthias Günther,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

Teenage German soldier is falsely accused of being a war criminal and arrested in Poland of 1945.

Actors : Marga Legal, Annekathrin Bürger, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thein,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

Set in the historical context of anti-Nazi resistance, this love story explores the moral issues of the period. Beyer's second antifascist film, it stands out stylistically due to the clear references to the work of Tarkovsky.

Actors : Jutta Hoffmann, Dieter Mann, Manfred Krug, Alfred Müller,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

One year has passed since Max and Wanda got their divorce. Max has come to the realization that he wants his ex-wife back - no matter what the cost! So he concocts a sneaky plan: he asks ...

Actors : Djoko Rosic, Jeff Dominiak, Bert Löper, Anton Karastoyanov,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

Two adolescents, Sauly and Mick, get to know each other while hitchhiking and stick together for the long haul. They both want to reach the ocean, which is some thousand kilometers away. An...

Actors : Rolf Hoppe, Götz George, Otto Sander, Ulrike Krumbiegel,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

Massive robbery from the safe of German railways set in 1946

Actors : Christine Schorn, Nikolaus Gröbe, Christiane Heinrich, Michael Gwisdek,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

Two people love each other when they know they should not. Their parents' and friends' pleas, their social backgrounds and reputation, their careers; everything is used to make them give ...